Plenary Talks

"Enhancing Mobile Web Service Delivery
over Wide Area Networks"

Abstract

Innovations in access technologies for cellular systems have now resulted in sufficient data capacity for generic mobile web services. However, increasing uptake of smart phones has lead to greater usage of the mobile browser to retrieve and render content that was previously accessed in a desktop environment. As a result, problems that plagued mobile web service delivery at the beginning of the decade are still resulting in an unsatisfactory user experience today. In this talk, two of these problems are considered – latency, and power consumption. The use of a handset-based web proxy as the primary technology enabler for addressing these two issues is examined as well.

Biography

Dr. Giridhar D. Mandyam is Vice President of Technology, Qualcomm Internet Services, San Diego, California. Born in Dallas, Texas, Dr. Mandyam received the BSEE degree (Magna Cum Laude) from Southern Methodist University in 1989, the MSEE degree from the University of Southern California in 1993, and the PhD EE degree from the University of New Mexico in 1996. At SMU he was a University Scholar and Hyer Society Scholar. While at USC he was a Teaching Assistant in the Signal and Image Processing Institute, and at UNM he studied under a NASA Fellowship. From 1989 to 1994, Dr. Mandyam held positions with Rockwell International and Qualcomm Inc. He worked at Texas Instruments from 1996 – 1998, and at Nokia from 1998 – 2006. While at Nokia, he held a number of research and management positions, including Head of the Nokia Research Center cite in San Diego, and Chief Technologist for North America. Dr. Mandyam is inventor or co-inventor of sixteen issued patents. He has also published over 70 conference and journal papers, and 4 book chapters. He is a co-author of the text Third-Generation CDMA Systems for Enhanced Data Services (Academic Press, 2002). He is presently a member of the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. Dr. Mandyam is a Senior Member of the IEEE.